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Elegant hand embroidery, embellishment, and appliqué
Filed Under Books, Embellishment, Embroidery, Hand appliqué, Prizes
I have a super-sized holiday treat this month as our featured book and giveaway! Landauer Publishing sent me a copy of Janice Vaine’s The Art of Elegant Hand Embroidery, Embellishment, and Appliqué.
It’s truly something special. It’s a great big, hard-cover, spiral-bound book, and with it Landauer also sent me the companion pack of 124 Block Patterns.
If you like hand embroidery and embellishment, you are sure to drool over this fantastic award-winning publication. Go on over to the Landauer website and watch the short video about the book. Click on “Look Inside the Book.”
Here’s an inside sneak peak:
The book and the companion patterns will both go to one lucky reader. If you’d like to win them, please leave a comment here on this post before 7:00 p.m. California time on Sunday, December 9.
The fine print: Open to U.S. and Canada mailing addresses only. Comments left on a different post are not eligible. Replies to an email feed are not eligible.
Many thanks to Landauer for providing us this wonderful resource for appliqué, embroidery, and embellishment enthusiasts. Good luck and happy holidays to all!!
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I adore applique! Thanks for the opportunity!
What a terrific book. Looks Fantastic.
Any applique person would love to have it.
Count me in
Embroidery and applique. What more could you want?
Well I think u meant December 9!! At least I hope so because the book looks absolutely amazing! Thanks so much:) Love the blog too!!
Oooo! Looks like a great book! Thanks for the opportunity to win it, Kay!
PS: Dana’s Goofy Santa is great! A good reminder to tap into our inner kids!
This looks to be such a special book. I’d love to win this as I love applique and embellishment. Thanks!
I would love to get this book! Thanks for the chance.
OH MY!!!! What a gorgeous book. I wasn’t able to do much applique this year, but what a way to be re-inspired!
OOOOHHH!!!
I would love to ow these books!
This books looks fantastic! Thanks for the chance to win a copy of the book and patterns!
would love this elegant book and its companion piece! thanx for the chance towin them.
Wow! What a beautiful book. This would be fabulous to win. Many thanks for giving us the opportunity to win.
Beautiful designs! Thanks for the opportunity to win.
This book looks so awesome! I would love to be the lucky one.
I opened the email on my phone, just had to rush to the computer to see the photos, and the link – just gorgeous !!!!
What a fantastic giveaway! I would love to win these books!!! Thanks so much for the chance.
WOW!! What a jackpot winning this would be!!
What a treat it would be to have this book in my quilting library.
What a beautiful book!! I would love to have it. Thanks for the giveaway.
Looks like a great book, thanks for the opportunity to win!
This book is just spectacular. I love the designs. This would truly be a welcome Christmas present. Thank you for the chance to win it. Merry Christmas to one and all.
This is a great looking book! Would love to add it to my “idea” shelf. Hopefully, I’m not too late.
Wow! I luv that its spiral-bound very handy. Hope I win…:)
Would love to own this book. Sounds wonderful. Thank you very much for the chance to win.
I have seen this book and it is absolutely beautiful.
Wow! This would make a great christmas present! Thank you.
Applique’ is fast becoming one of my favorite techniques. Would love to win this book to add to my books of techniques and patterns. Thanks for the opportunity to win
This looks like the most wonderful book to own. Love doing applique & other fancy articles. Want to do quilt blocks with baskets of flowers. Would love to win this book.
Anything that can help me enhance my applique is OK with me! Thanks for the contest!
What a lovely book, it would be a great addition to any library, especially mine:)
The book looks gorgeous and I’m just trying out how to do ribbon embroidery. I made some pansies. I’d treasure a book like this.
I have seen this book in the bookstore and it is gorgeous!! As an applique addict I had to take a look at it and it was drool worthy. Seriously. Fingers crossed.
Ribbon embroidery and applique are my two favorite things! The book looks beautiful!
What a beautiful book! Who wouldn’t want to be the lucky winner? BTW Loved Dana’s goofy Santa! :)
Thank you for the chance to win this beautiful book.
It looks like a gorgeous book, lovely opportunity, thank you. Always looking for ways to improve my appliqué skills.
I love applique! I have taught it to many over the past 30 plus years. So, any new exciting book will have to be in my library. Fingers crossed to win!
As a recent convert to the “A” world, I would devour this book. Thanks for the opportunity.
Thank you for the chance to win this terrific looking book. Love applique! May peace, love and joy surround you and yours this holiday season.
What a great resource to own. I would love to win this and I hope the drawing is December 9th and not November 9th like you state. I hope I haven’t missed this give away.
I’ve just finished an Applique’ 101 class & this book would be great! Thank you for the chance to win!
OH, Gosh! How gorgeous. Anyone would be glad to have this resource!
Thank you, Kay and Landauer, for the chance to win this. It looks like a book I might need to order for our guild library.
Gorgeous projects! Please count me in!
I would be thrilled to win these books – please count me in.
Looks like a gorgeous book full of great ideas!
Thanks for the opportunity – I just finished an embroidery piece and will start an applique quilt in the new year. Happy Holidays from snowy Canada
I love embroidery and applique. This book looks fabulous.
Wow. The book is gorgeous. Sure would love to win the copy.
What a wonderful book!! I love applique & embroidery!! Keeping my fingers crossed. Thanks for the chance to win.
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I love applique. I’ve only done machine applique so far, but have just started a huge hand applique project.
I would love to win this book. It sounds great. Thanks for the chance to win.
This book is a treasure! I would love to win it.
I would love to have this Embroidery book, I still have a maternity top with embroideried yolk and pockets I Made and refuse to give away(My baby is 36 yrs old0
That looks stunning! My mom and I have worked together on a few pieces…I applique, she embroiders, we’d both be drooling!
Drool is right!
This book from what we can see is awesome!
A must have for everyones sewing library.
Applique is my passion! Nothing is better than watching football and appliquing a beautiful design. Would love to have the books and learn new techniques and designs. Patsy
I’ve just begun to applique and I love it. I’d love to win this book! Thanks for the opportunity.
What a lovely Christmas present to win. I have just started to applique and am having a ball. Thanks for the opportunity.
Elegant being the understatement of the year! <3 Can't wait to see it in person!
Wow! Looks like a beautiful book with lots of helpful instructions. I definitely want this book!
Beautiful book and a very generous gift. I enjoy your blog very much … thank you.
Oh my! Thats a gotta have book! I’ve been working on my applique skills in the last couple of years, I suppose its time to kick it up an knotch and add embroidery!
What a great book. I would love to learn more about embellishing applique and he patterns would be a super addition to my pattern library!
Embroidery and embellishments just make an applique piece “pop”! WOW—would I love this book as a reference and to work on these special blocks. I love applique!
This book is something every stitcher would love to have.
Whew, I ‘m just starting out with applique and embroidery and I would LOVE to have this book!
The book looks wonderful. I have done some ribbon embroidery in the past and would love to get back to it.
I love the combination of appliqué and embroidery on quilts. This is a great giveaway! Thanks!
The book looks just great! I’d love to win because I’m just getting into appliqué, and the embroidery is a plus! Thanks so much for the great giveaway!
Wow, that book looks great. I am always looking for embellishment ideas and good instructions for embroidery. thanks!
I’m working to expand my embroidery skills for applique quilts–embellishments, applique and embroidery all go hand in hand. This book looks like a wonderful way to learn more about all these techniques. Thanks very much.
Wow this looks like quite the book on applique.
I would love a chance to win it,thanks
Learning new stitches and creating an heirloom would be a lovely way to start 2013. thanks for the eye candy
Those are beautiful books…I can see many lazy Sunday mornings browsing for the lucky winner!
Super looking book. I would love to drool over it. Thanks for the opportunity.
ooohhh some of those quilts are gorgeous. Thanks. Vivian
Wow, looks like a wonderful book to browse through over the holidays. I would love to win it, thank you very much.
What a lovely Christmas present this will be for the lucky winner. Hope it’s me!
I looked through this book at my LQS–it is beautiful! I’d love to win a copy.